Hi All, Sweden! Didn't expect to be here on this trip but it turned out to be cheaper to fly to Stockholm and catch the ferry to Helsinki than to fly direct. Suits me. So we have a day and a half in Stockholm and our first day was a blue sky day. Super.... Read more >

Hi All, Long train trip 9hrs. Most of the leaves are gone from the trees
but some still were full of pomegranates standing out boldly in red;
natures christmas trees. There also were pear trees with their yellow
fruit. Looks great. Most of the trees ... Read more >

Hi All, Try and pronounce it. You probably got it wrong. “Vrotzwav”. What the...? Is this a Polish joke? Lovely
town. The polish venice. We were in a well place hostel in a 8 bed
dorm. Hostel looked good so I was looking forward to a good nights
sleep.... Read more >

Hi All, We decided to visit the Wieliczka salt mine today. It was a local bus ride out to the site. Reminds me that it was really easy to figure out the transport and saved us quite a lot of money yesterday and today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieliczka_... Read more >

Hi All, Words do no justice to the horror of Auschwitz so it is difficult to express how confronting our visit to these death camps was so we shan´t even attempt to recount what we saw..... ¨The one who does not remember history is bound to live ... Read more >

Hi All, A quick walk to the river for a look at the John Lennon peace wall but unfortunately vandals had sprayed over the original works. We had time to drop in to the local pub we had found previous and have goulash and spicey pork with dumplings ... Read more >

Hi all, Day trip to Karlštejn
Castle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%C5%A1tejn This is a great castle and we did the boring tour which unfortunately didn´t cover the Chapel of the holy rood which was ... Read more >

Dear All, We decided to pay the full price for train tickets and head to Prague so it was onto the tram to the Southern train station (sudbahnhoff) and a 4 hr journey. We watched the movie trans-siberia along the way. Prague. It certainly did not ... Read more >

Hi All, Good news. Passports are back. We spent a lot of time looking at the tracking of the passports from Australia. They went the long way: Sydney, Australia; Leipzig, Germany; Bratslavia, Slokavia; and finally Vienna, Austria. We raced out to ... Read more >

Hello All,
We didn't get going until 12pm which was our late checkout from the
ibis. Wanted to get our money worth. During that time I had decided
that I wanted to go to the Rhine river as it was reasonably close.
Unfortunately ... Read more >

Hi All,
We caught the train after our walk around the old town of Wursburg
heading to Heidelberg. It takes a long time with the slower trains and
we arrived to an average looking town. We had a few dramas with the
storage lockers ... Read more >

Hi All, Finally after 3months and approximately 16,997km of travel, numerous
rounds of correspondence back and forth between Royal Mail ,Parcel
Force and ourselves our box full of priceless items,broken soled scarpe
leather hiking boots,spoons and ... Read more >

Hi All,
We arrived in Wurzburg and located our hostel about 200m from the train station.It was a brand new hostel called babelfish which was filled with Ikea furniture ,a big dopey black pet dog,helpful staff and a book exchange so what more could ... Read more >

Hello All, Today we boarded our train for Germany's best-preserved walled town.It was a long and at times arduous journey to Rothenburg ob der Tauber which required 3 changes of train and a bus to train but the journey was worth it as the town ... Read more >